Rogers hospital to start installing family room

3rd-floor Ronald McDonald space at Mercy to have playroom for ill kids’ siblings

By CYD KING ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE

Posted: January 29, 2013 at 2:01 a.m.

Special to the Democrat Gazette
This artist’s rendering shows the planned Ronald McDonald House Charities Family Room at Mercy Northwest Arkansas in Rogers, which will be identical to its family room at Mercy Hospital in Fort Smith. The hospital plans a “wall-breaking” ceremony at 10 a.m. Friday.

Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas plans a “wall-breaking” Friday to make space for a new 3,200-square-foot Ronald McDonald Family Room on its third floor, much like the one that opened at Mercy Hospital Fort Smith in 2010.